On 8/2/07, Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not familiar with the Hurd and its development status, and do > not feel able to contribute to its development directly, but I am > able to offer a moderate bounty for a stable, GPLv3, more or less > drop-in replacement of the Linux kernel to complete the GNU system, > that boots on a decent amount of commodity hardware. > > It already does that all of that (with some minor quirks),
That's good to hear. > The problem is drivers. Something that Linux 10 years ahead of us, > and we will most probobly always play catch; though some kind of > pluggable driver API was added recently, so who knows... I don't know if you expected answers for the following questions, but I'll do it. I would not mind having to wait more for the newest hardware to be supported, as long as there is some combination of hardware that works and can be bought. > Will you use GNU on your laptop when there is no WIFI support? > Sound support? USB support? > Those are the problems that have to be solved; not some overdesigned > system. With the exclusion of WIFI, of which I could not care less about, I would not be able to use it without sound support and USB support, since I need to keep in contact with my family abroad (VoIP), and I also need to be able to use USB memory sticks. But I could still dual boot until that functionality is provided. I agree that those are problems to be solved, though I do not understand what you mean about an 'overdesigned system', I never suggested any. Claudio
